About Us: Contributors
Columnists
William A. Collins
William A. Collins, an OtherWords columnist, is a former Connecticut State lawmaker and the former mayor of Norwalk. He founded Minuteman Media, which later became OtherWords, in 1998. 9collins[AT]sbcglobal.net
Jim Hightower
Jim Hightower, an OtherWords columnist, is a radio commentator, writer, and public speaker. He’s also editor of the populist newsletter, The Hightower Lowdown
Donald Kaul
Donald Kaul worked some 30 years as a syndicated Washington columnist for the Des Moines Register before retiring at the dawn of the new century. When the nation responded by electing George W. Bush—as President!—he quickly saw the error of his ways and re-enlisted in the fray as an OtherWords columnist. He lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Cartoonist
Khalil Bendib
Award-winning Berkeley-based editorial cartoonist Khalil Bendib’s cartoons are regularly featured in dozens of small and mid-size newspapers across the country, and they can be viewed at www.bendib.com. They have also been featured in USA Today, The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, and numerous other large mainstream newspapers.
His books of political cartoons include It Became Necessary to Destroy the Planet in Order to Save it (PlanNine, 2003,) Mieux Vaut Empire qu'en Pleurer (E-dite, Paris 2005) and Mission Accomplished (Interlink 2007.) His next book, Too Big to Fail, will be published in 2012.
Staff & partners
Emily Schwartz Greco
Emily is the Institute's op-ed manager and runs OtherWords (formerly known as Minuteman Media). OtherWords is a syndicated service that distributes progressive commentary and cartoons to approximately 1,700 editors at newspapers and web portals across the nation.
Prior to coming to IPS in 2003, Emily covered foreign policy and economics in Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo, Brazil, as well as Washington and New York, for the Dow Jones and Bloomberg News services. She earned a M.S. in journalism from Columbia University and a B.A. in Latin American studies and history from the University of Texas at Austin. She has traveled extensively in Latin America, Southeast Asia, and the South Pacific and is fluent in Spanish and Portuguese. She lives in Arlington, Virginia, with her husband and two young children.
Our Partners
Dozens of experts at non-profit organizations from across the country write OtherWords op-eds and we run columns every week by our regular columnists. Most of these op-eds come from our partner organizations. Once a week, we run an op-ed by an Institute for Policy Studies expert. IPS, which runs OtherWords, is a community of public scholars and organizers linking peace, justice, and the environment in the U.S. and globally. We work with social movements to promote true democracy and challenge concentrated wealth, corporate influence, and military power.
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